Improvement in shifting- buggy-tops



D. ELDRIDGE.

Buggy Top.v

No. 99.865. Patented Feb. l5, 1870.

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waited tant DAVID ELDRIDGE, 0F SALEM, OHIO.

Letters .Patent No. 99,865, dated February 15, 187 0.

IMPRQVEMNT IN SHIITING- BUG-G-Y-TOPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it ma/y concern.-

Beit known that I, DAVID ELDRIDGE, of Salem, in the county of Columbiana, and in the State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shifting Buggy-Tops; and do hereby declare that the following is a full,`olear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the lettersffot' reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a buggy-seat in such a manner that it can be readily changed from a topbuggy to an open-top or no-top buggy.

1u order to enable others skilled iu the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to theannexed drawings', in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation ofthe complete seat; v

Figure 2 is a plan view of the frame to which the top isattached; and

Figure 3 is a section of the back of the no-top seat.

A represents a bent wooden rail, which is connect-ed with the frame bottom B by means of the irons C C, forming a good and substantial seat-frame to receive a top, D.

E represents au open-buggy seat, made in any of the known and usual ways, and provided on the frontor inner side of its'back with two small metal lugs or pieces, a a, which ,form recesses directly above the l bottom of the seat.

The frame bottom B, which is made to fit exactly on the bottom of the seat E, is provided at its rear edge with small metal projections, b b, which are inserted'into the recesses under therlugs c a.

The frame B is setin the seat E, and secured by means of two-headed bolts, d ,iastened` by nuts e-e underneath, making a top-buggy in a very short time.`

After the top is removed, it leaves the'seat E free of irons.

Having thus flly described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-4 In testimony that I cla-im the foregoing, I have hereuntoset my hand, this 19th dayot' November, 1869.

DAVID ELDRIDGE.

lVitnesses:

HENRY C. JONES, f DAVID McMiLLAN. 

